Thursday, October 23, 2008

Prayers for Jade today

Jade has lost 264g since being born, this rapid loss of weight has caused a lot of stress on her. The doctor gave a page and a half of orders to try and help her today. She also is rather red so they think she might be getting a yeast infection. They put a powder on her to prevent this, as you can see in the picture. Hopefully its not an infection because that would be really hard on her.

Both girls are up on there billy ruben count so they are under the lights again. If this doesn't work they may have to do a blood transfusion to help with this.

They are giving them both medicine to try and close the holes in their hearts, Sofira was not quite getting enough blood to her brain so hopefully by closing the hole in her heart this will help that.

Jade's potassium levels are up so they are giving them insulin to help with that. They really are twins because Sofira's is starting to rise as well.

Jade is still on the CPAP as the picture shows so she is doing really good there still.

Sofira only lost 27g the first day so she is doing pretty good weight wise. Weight loss is normal after babies are first born.  I think Jade is just trying to get down to Sofira's weight, cause she misses her...

Sofira had a lot of stress from the attempt at going off the ventilator and her lungs are showing it. They had to up how much she was using the ventilator to compensate for this. They basically are building her lungs back up again.

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